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"This model of computer does not have a blu-ray drive unless you got a third party upgrade. In this case, you will need to track down special drivers, which can best be done by whomever sold you the drive.

That would depend on the burner drive and if it has dual layer support built in. Look on the front plate of the drive tray and look for DL somewhere near the DVD letters. If you see a DL then it will burn double layer disc. You would also need to have blank Dual Layer DVD-R discs. It will not burn dual layers on a standard 4.6 GB DVD it would have to be an 8.6 GB DVD. You will also need a burning software that has Dual Layer burning support.

GSA-4167B hmmm.. thats an old drive... i believe you past it product life (means that you writer can not recognize correctly new modern media such dvd disks.
Reports are: that your drive is able to write on DVD+R Double layer 3.3x-8x (CAV).
Please be sure that your writing speed is between 4x-8x (my favorite speeds for quality DVD disc burning)
Since the drive have already some writing issues... and as you say that it fails on all media..i would suggest you to buy a new one.
If you desperately need IDE adapter you can find on ebay some converter from sata to ide converter.